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by 30367286 4y ago
Yeah, the trick on taking out low interest loans is they have to be long term, like a mortgage. Over 30 years, I'm definitely paying it back in post-inflation dollars. In one year? Not really. I'd have to get a raise on, like, the
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by 30367286 4y ago
Agreed, and it should include the prices in brick and mortar stores. There is no reason not to print the price and the price+tax together.
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by 30367286 4y ago
>I don't recall this happening. Can you provide a source for this? https://www.csmonitor.com/layout/set/amphtml/USA/2020/1119/O...
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by 30367286 4y ago
> And yet there is scant evidence hospitals ever were at risk Are you suggesting that this story is inaccurate? Your claim is baffling in the face of… well, all the stories I’ve been reading the past two years. https://www.chi
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by 30367286 4y ago
I think TIME is gunning more for the supermarket checkout reader with this piece, a crowd that would find anti-trust and fake USB cables to be quite dry.
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by 30367286 4y ago
Cool, you should talk to ModernMech, he’s having trouble with power management. Or indeed any of the folks on this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30644113
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by 30367286 4y ago
On what laptops does sleep/hibernate work correctly when you close the lid, with Mint? Seriously, swear to fucking god, every time someone says “oh Linux just works”, the next comment is “oh? I tried that distro on the recommended hard
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by 30367286 4y ago
You mean: roughly 100 million people will starve and suffer from malnutrition because Russia invaded Ukraine. It was an entirely predictable outcome based on one country's actions.
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by 30367286 4y ago
You are you are absolutely right that this will be a more beneficial attitude to carry into their futures because it is exactly what has allowed me to succeed, but only after unlearning some terrible internalized anxiety about failure cause
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by 30367286 4y ago
You are correct. It was Archivist.
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by 30367286 4y ago
A long time ago, on what.cd, I spent some time to upload rare and odd CDs I found at the library in Austin, TX. For a while, I had only one downloader, consistently. A user name Librarian. I looked up their IP address as it was connected to
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by 30367286 4y ago
> But they do it with like minded people This is the main problem I see with your compromise. The self-sorting will create or enforce existing silos. The compromise is not only between you and your employer, but also between you and your
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by 30367286 4y ago
Alas, this is the nature of compromise. Your downside is your employer’s upside.
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by 30367286 4y ago
This is really how it ought to go. Once a quarter, we all descend on one city for one week. We make big plans, we revel in each other’s company, and we see a new part of the world or see a familiar part of the world in a new way with collea
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by 30367286 4y ago
What is a sufficient compromise, in your view, that satisfies the need of some workers to have regular face to face interactions with coworkers and prevents corporations unprepared to manage a remote team from whipping back to full in-offic
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by 30367286 4y ago
>Working remote is just what I need, and I am way more productive. I acknowledge that you and many others derive personal satisfaction from productivity. I do too. However, I strongly believe we should move away from productivity as the
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by 30367286 4y ago
>I'd spin this around and cast it as a challenge -- regular, forced interactions with coworkers is minimally sufficient and retards some people from pursuing social activities outside the home. Absolutely. Additionally, even getting
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by 30367286 4y ago
Do you believe they have the tools to create that vision of a better world?
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by 30367286 4y ago
This quote from the education commissioner cracked me up: In the letter to teachers, Education Commissioner Margie Vandeven said “an individual took the records of at least three educators, unencrypted the source code from the webpage, and
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by 30367286 4y ago
I don’t understand this comment. Would you mind explaining?
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by 30367286 4y ago
The number of consumers trying to buy a coffee who will “linearly interpolate between the two extremes” will be limited to a vanishingly small group of consumers who enjoy that kind of thing. The two responses to my very simple question pro
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by 30367286 5y ago
So the average consumer is back to trusting a central authority (PayPal)? Then what’s the point, for the end user, of the blockchain in the first place?
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by 30367286 5y ago
> Giving them housing doesn't mean they also get immunity from criminal laws. All evidence to the contrary. SF, Seattle, LA… seems like the free housing people are indeed immune to at least petty crime laws.
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by 30367286 5y ago
This is one aspect of homelessness that I never see addressed by those advocating for liberal policies like free housing. What do we do with the people who simply prefer not to work at all? Even giving them Basic Income would not stop them
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by 30367286 5y ago
Note that the article is from 2013, and this is very much in line with Facebook’s stance overall: that they are just a forum for expression, and not in the business of policing speech. That stance has only softened, really, in the past few
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by 30367286 5y ago
That term could fit most of the Santa Clara Valley if you’re operating on the definition provided by the person you heard that from. I won’t link their name here, since I do not believe it is worthwhile to give them attention.
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by 30367286 5y ago
The people dying of COVID and the people working from home are different cohorts. We have a vaccine, anti-virals, and natural immunity. Will the WFH cohort see an increase in deaths due to RTO? Certainly. We’ll also see more car accidents.
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by 30367286 5y ago
My first “tech” job out of college was tech support for a VPN company. Brilliant little operation reselling bandwidth to folks visiting China and those who wanted to hide their traffic. One reason I really respected the CEO and CTO is that
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by 30367286 5y ago
>Want service workers to perform background sync? Want push notifications? No. Not even a little. I don't want these for my native apps. I turn them off for everything.
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by 30367286 5y ago
We already have explanations for the obesity issues in the west. It's tempting to look for "the one thing," but the story is far more interesting than that: https://www.publichealth.org/public-awareness/o

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